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Re:Unhappy Birthday by anon4 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @09:07AM (#9604518)
From reading his post, I get the impression that his/her incentive was to uphold copyright.
Re:Unhappy Birthday by anigbrowl on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @06:16PM (#9608039)
Exactly right. I don't support copyright exactly as it is, but I'm very much against abandoning the concept.

I do comment frequently on HN just to be social or pass the time. But I don't attach much economic value to those comments, except in the most general sense of maybe winning friends and influencing people.